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The Path to UNESCO World Heritage
Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura
Abstract On July 9, 2017 in Kraków, Poland, the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated the landscape of parts of two valleys in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany as a World Heritage (WH) site. The idea and initial planning for nominating the serial site which comprises the Ach- and Lone Valleys dates to the late 1990s when the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of this site began to come into focus in connection with a series of new excavations and new scientific results. Here, we give an overview of the process by which the Lone Valley with the archaeological sites of Vogelherd, Hohlenstein and Bockstein caves as well as the Ach Valley with Geißenklösterle, Sirgenstein and Hohle Fels caves became a WH site. These two river valleys provide a rich record of human settlement in a unique Ice Age landscape, but they are best known for early figurative artworks and musical instruments from the Aurignacian period dating to roughly 40,000 years ago. These finds count among the earliest examples of figurative, mobile art and musical instruments known worldwide.
Keywords UNESCO World Heritage, Swabian Jura cave sites, Aurignacian, Figurative artworks, Musical instruments
